The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-11-18

Commissioners MiiIer's Annual Pa
per--A Mass Of Interesting Facts
Cleaned Therefrom.

The report Of Miller, commissioner of in.
ternal revenue. has iust been issued, and
some Of tho significant facts con,
tanned in it which have a bearing upon the
subject OF the surplus revenue are these:
1t is estimated that S120,00o, 900 will
be collected from the internal revenue
taxation during the current fiscal
year, provided there shall be
no change in existing rates OF taxation.
The collections for the last fiscal I;ear com.
pared with those for the preceding fiscal
year show there has heen a decrease in the
amount OF tax collected from spirits and
an increase in the receipts from the tax on
tobacco, fermented liquors, banks aud
bankers and oleomargarine.. The same
percentage OF increase is maintained for
the first three months OF the current fiscal
year. The total cost OF collecting the in
ternal revenue tax was 81, O65, / Las, or
about Y per cent OF the am cunt collected,
This is about the usual percentage OF cost,
although there was a slight reaction in
favor OF the expense for the last fiscal
year. There were 456 Illicit distilleries
seized last year..
The commissions recommends that an
additional head OF division be created to
carry out the provisions OF the oleomarga.
rine act. The total receipts Tor the first
year in which the law has been enforced
were almost 81. ZOO, 900. Such a result
was not anticipated. Practically tho tax
has been in excess OF the two cents pro-
videa for by the law. By dividing the to.
tai receipts by the number OF pounds re.
moved for consumption or sale the tax
per pound ia found to he 6.3 cents. The
number OF persona doing business under
the act has been reduced from 1902 to
1854.
SOME MORE FIGURES.
The reporter says:
Total receipts Tor the fiscal year were
Sll3,S29 523, MS compared with S116,.
so2, = Tor 1856. The reduction OF the
number OF internal revenue districts has
very considerably lessened the cost OF col.
Letting the internal revenue taxes, and has
not in any manner been detrimental to
the interest OF the taxpayers. 30 far as
no has been informed. The quantity OF
spirits produced nddeposited in distillery
warehouses during the last fiscal c
compared with 1886, distributed among
the different kinds known to the trade
was US follows: Increase in the produc.
ton OF run, 57.21 gallons; gin, 9o,41S
gallons; high wines. 141,465 gallons; pure
neutral or cologne spirits, 527, 63S gallons:
total increase, 1890, TAG gallons. De-
crease IN the production of Bourbon wills.
ky. 2,3O3, 1855 gallons; rye whisky, 52S,-
800 gallons: alcohol. 910,S42 gallons; total
decrease. 3,743,5 27 gallons; net decrease,
6o'ioh HuhNtlly Vi SplFs
It's withdrawn, tax paid. from distillery
warehouses during the past fiscal year
compared with 1856 was: Decrease in
withdrawal Of Bourbon whisky, 1877, 7O4
gallons; rye whisky. 41O,2O9 gallons; mis-
cellancous, 26l, 704 gallons. Totalincrense
4,64a. 707 gallons. Increased in withdrawal
OF alcohol, 955. 917 gallons; rum, 1o4, 627
gallons; gin, 5S, 100 gallons; high wines,
lO,64l gallons; pure neutral or cologne
spirits, 606, 2C5. Total increase from
1856. 2,ol3.597 gallons. OF the quantity,
2.2l6.645 gallons OF domestic spirits ex-
ported and reimported during the year
upon payment OF a customs duty equal to
the internal revenue tax be acded. The
quantity virtually withdrawn from distil.
lery warehouses during the year ended
June 30, 1887, is found to be 6s,399,-
DIS gallons, or 1,664.462 gallons
less than during the year 1886.
including the 967, 800 gallons r%cimported
and tax paid during that year. There are
OF rc-imported spirits liable to be returned
six or seven million gallons in foreign ware
houses. He recommends that section
25OO Revised Statutes be SO amended as
to exclude as an article subject to a Gus.
toms duty all domestic spirits returned to
this country, and to provide for the collec-
ton OF the internal revenue Ia due on
such spirits as shown by the marks and
brands on the packages at the time OF the
removal of the spirits from the distiller's
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